Ways of Reading Third Edition - Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss, Sara Mills 2007
Section 1 Basic techniques and problem-solving
Unit 1 Asking questions as a way into reading
1.1 Comprehension and interpretive variation
1.3 How to get started in ways of reading
1.4 Starting your reading with questions
Unit 2 Using information sources
2.2 Examples of the use of information sources
2.3 Adapting an information source to your needs: the OED
2.5 The Internet as a source of information
2.6 The reliability of information sources
Unit 3 Analysing units of structure
3.3 Literary applications of grammatical description
3.4 Extending the notion of grammar
3.5 Constitutive rather than regulatory rules
3.6 Possibilities for analysis
Unit 4 Recognizing genre
4.2 Recognizing or deciding what genre a text is in
Section 2 Language variation
Unit 5 Language and time
5.1 Theories of language change
5.2 Change and linguistic media
5.3 Some types of language change
5.5 Feminist changes to language
Unit 6 Language and place
6.2 How characters (and the narrator) speak
6.5 Language variety in literary texts
6.6 Post-colonial writing in English
6.7 Dialect and accent in media
Unit 7 Language and context: register
7.1 Contexts that affect register
7.2 The social distribution of registers
Unit 8 Language and gender
8.2 Female as downgraded or derogated
8.5 The female sentence: a woman’s writing?
Unit 9 Language and society
9.1 Vocabulary in social history
9.2 Language and social relations
9.3 Transitivity, and the notions of overt and covert agency
9.4 Language and social structure in the novel
Section 3 Attributing meaning
Unit 10 Metaphor and figurative language
10.1 Types of figurative language: metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, allegory, apostrophe
10.3 Reading metaphor in literature
Unit 11 Irony
Unit 12 Juxtaposition
12.1 Verbal (and poetic) juxtaposition
12.2 Visual juxtaposition: film
12.3 Sequential versus simultaneous juxtaposition
12.4 Some effects of juxtaposition
Unit 13 Intertextuality and allusion
Unit 14 Authorship and intention
14.3 Ways of reading authorship
Unit 15 Positioning the reader or spectator
Section 4 Poetic form
Unit 16 Rhyme and sound patterning
16.1 The structure of the syllable
16.2 Types of sound pattern: types of rhyme and types of alliteration
16.3 The significance of sound patterns
16.4 Making interpretations on the basis of sound patterns
Unit 17 Verse, metre and rhythm
17.4 Rhythm, metre and ‘foot substitution
17.5 Extra (and missing) syllables in the line
17.7 What to look for in verse
Unit 18 Parallelism
18.3 The functions of parallelism and the variety of texts in which it is found
Unit 19 Deviation
19.1 Convention and deviation in everyday language
19.2 Convention and deviation in literature
19.3 Effects and implications of literary deviation: defamiliarization
Section 5 Narrative
Unit 20 Narrative
20.1 Narrative form and narrative content
20.2 The typicality of characters and events
20.3 The narrative arc: from lack to resolution
20.4 How narratives begin and end
Unit 21 Narrative point of view
21.2 Point of view and narration
Unit 22 Speech and narration
22.2 Types of speech presentation in prose fiction
Unit 23 Narrative realism
23.1 The traditional view of realism
Section 6 Media: from text to performance
Unit 24 Film and prose fiction
24.1 Institutional differences: literature versus cinema
24.2 Differences in media: film versus prose
24.3 Formal differences: verbal sign versus visual image
24.5 Differences between film and prose fiction
Unit 25 Ways of reading drama
25.3 The formal analysis of drama
25.4 Narrative in dramatic texts
25.5 The representation of thoughts or inner speech in drama
25.6 Dramatic devices that are written into the dramatic text but only work on the stage
Unit 26 Literature in performance
26.2 How does performance affect reading literature?